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The Department of History, University of Winnipeg, and Manitoba Education Present
2013 UW Teaching History Summer Institute:
"New Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Aboriginal History"
July 8-10, 2013
Since Confederation and in fact earlier, Indigenous peoples of Canada have encountered discrimination, exploitation, oppression, and indifference both from the state and non-indigenous (settler) population, in stark contrast to previous centuries when Indigenous peoples and European newcomers understood one another as mutually interdependent nations of peoples. First peoples have since endured and resisted a pervasive and ongoing colonization and assimilation, the keystone of which has been an education system, until recently, fundamentally opposed to Indigenous cultures, identities, and traditions of education. Though Aboriginal adaptation and resilience mark the centuries (as they did for millennia before), only in the last several decades has a reformation occurred in which First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples have begun to recover from institutionalized paternalism and racism and reassert their sovereignty and identity. Slowly, the legacy is changing.
The 2013 University of Winnipeg Teaching History Summer Institute explores the relationship between the history(s) of Aboriginal peoples and education in light of the Indigenous re-appropriation of both, toward the imperative of appreciating, understanding, and communicating Indigenous perspectives to students and the public. Insights from Indigenous teachings and cutting-edge scholarship will be combined to produce practical and creative strategies for the classroom. Indigenous perspectives are considered both from point of view of understanding, historically, indigenous actors/peoples and from the perspective of contemporary issues, with a regional emphasis that includes the Idle No More movement.
As part of this partnership, Manitoba Education encourages teachers from 5 to 12 to participate in this valuable learning experience.
Location: 223 Bryce Hall, University of Winnipeg
Registration fee: $50.00.
For registration (side bar) and additional information see the THSI website or contact
Jason M. Yaremko, Coordinator, 204.786.9353 or j.yaremko@uwinnipeg.ca
Celebrating the work of Dr. Jack Thiessen
Dee Erläwnisse von Alice em Wundalaund: A Low German Translation of Alices Adventures in Wonderland
The Chair in Mennonite Studies, the Centre for Research in Young Peoples Texts and Cultures and the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation cordially invite you to a public lecture and reception celebrating the work of Dr. Jack Thiessen - Dee Erläwnisse von Alice em Wundalaund: A Low German Translation of Alices Adventures in Wonderland to be held on April 4, 2013, at 7:00 pm at the University of Winnipeg in Room 2M70 (second floor Manitoba Hall).
The evening will include a welcome by Dr. Royden Loewen and introductions by Dr. Mavis Reimer and Dr. A. Ross McCormack. Reading and comments by Dr. Thiessen followed by a response by Dr. Al Reimer, author of My Harp is Turned to Mourning will complete the formal portion of the event. A reception in honour of Dr. Thiessen will follow immediately thereafter.
This event is sponsored by the Chair in Mennonite Studies, the Centre for Research in Young Peoples Texts and Cultures and the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation. For further information regarding this event please contact Dr. Royden Loewen 204.786.9391 or r.loewen@uwinnipeg.ca
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The Department of History at the University of Winnipeg presents, as part of the History Seminar Series:
When: Wednesday, March 20th
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba,he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. As a young man in Stalinist Russia, he became Ivan and fought as a Red Army Soldier in the Second World War. Captured by the Germans, he was resettled in occupied Poland where he became Johann, was naturalized and drafted into Hitler’s German army. There he served until captured and placed in an American POW camp. He was eventually released and then immigrated to Canada where he became John.
The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.
Hans Werner teaches Mennonite Studies and Canadian History at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities. John Werner was his father.
Asking People About Their Lives: Oral History and the Arts
The Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg is pleased to present a Brown Bag Lecture and Discussion Series, "Asking People About Their Lives: Oral History and the Arts". This lecture series will provide an opportunity for researchers to share their current practices, approaches, and experiences of doing oral history from a variety of perspectives and across diverse populations. Lectures will take place in 2B23 Bryce Hall on Mondays from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The fourth lecture in this series, “Make the Night Hideous: The Joys and Sorrows of Doing Historical Research”” presented by Pauline Greenhill, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Angela Armstrong, Department of History/Oral History Centre, will be held Monday, 18 March 2013, at 12:30 p.m. in 2B23 Bryce Hall.
For more information please contact the Oral History Centre at 204.786.9382 or oralhistorycentre@gmail.com .
The Department of History at the University of Winnipeg presents, as part of the History Seminar Series:
When: Wednesday, February 13th
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
In this seminar Janis Thiessen will discuss her new book Manufacturing Mennonites: Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba. Manufacturing Mennonites examines the efforts of Mennonite intellectuals and business leaders to redefine the group’s ethno-religious identity in response to changing economic and social conditions after 1945. As the industrial workplace was one of the most significant venues in which competing identity claims were contested during this period, Janis Thiessen explores how Mennonite workers responded to such redefinitions and how they affected class relations.
Through unprecedented access to extensive private company records, Thiessen provides an innovative comparison of three businesses founded, owned, and originally staffed by Mennonites: the printing firm Friesens Corporation, the window manufacturer Loewen, and the furniture manufacturer Palliser. Complemented with interviews with workers, managers, and business owners, Manufacturing Mennonites pioneers two important new trajectories for scholarship - how religion can affect business history, and how class relations have influenced religious history.
Indigenous Methodologies and Historical Consciousness
Dr. Winona Wheeler
University of Saskatchewan
Sanford Riley Fellow
The confluence of academic and Indigenous-based historical research is fertile ground for enhancing our understandings of historical consciousness in Indigenous contexts. This lecture will explore the trans-disciplinary or anti-disciplinary nature of Indigenous histories through an examination of Indigenous research methodologies.
Thursday, 7 February 2013
2B23 Oral History Centre
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Reception to Follow
Experiences of Africans and Their Descendants in Portugal, c.1444-1910: A Visual Tour
Dr. José C. Curto, York University
The Department of History at the University of Winnipeg is proud to present a public lecture by Dr. José C. Curto as part of the commemoration of Black History Month. Dr. Curto is a history professor at York University in Toronto, Ontario, where he offers courses in African history and the slave trade. He has published a number of books and articles on the slave trade, both in English and in Portuguese. Dr. Curto's presentation is titled, "Experiences of Africans and Their Descendants in Portugal, c.1444-1910: A Visual Tour."
Where: Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall, The University of Winnipeg
Discussion to follow and light refreshments will be provided. Everybody is welcome!
Brothers in Arms, Partners in
Trade Dutch-Indigenous Alliances in the Atlantic World 1595 -
1674
Dr. Mark Meuwese, UW History
When: Friday, January 18th
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
In this first seminar Mark Meuwese will discuss his new book Brothers in Arms, Partners in Trade on the alliances between the Dutch West India Company and non-European peoples in the Atlantic World. The book examines Dutch alliances with Indigenous nations and rulers in New Netherland (New York), Brazil, Angola/Kongo, and the Gold Coast (Ghana) during the seventeenth century. The goals of this book are twofold: first, to globalize and to bring comparative perspectives to the history of Indigenous-European relations in North America; secondly, to correct misconceptions about the role of the Dutch in the creation of the Atlantic World, a region that interconnected West Africa, Europe, and the Americas through trade, war, and cultural exchange from 1450 to 1850.
Call for Tutors: Winnipeg Education Centre
ARE YOU INTERESTING IN BEING A TUTOR?
The Department of History and Bachelor of Education Access Program, Winnipeg Education Centre (WEC) at the University of Winnipeg welcome inquiries from students interested in positions as History tutors during the 2012-13 academic year.
For any given course, tutors work under the supervision of the academic adviser. They may also confer/consult with the instructor of the course and/or with the History program coordinator.
Undergraduate tutors are often, but not always, selected from students completing the third or fourth year (Hons.) of their studies.
Interested applicants should submit a brief letter indicating their interest and a description of their area of study as well as any related experience. Please remember to include your complete contact information including student number. A student history is recommended, but not required.
For further information please contact Jason Yaremko, 786-9353, j.yaremko@uwinnipeg.ca, or Kirk Dowson, 258-2966, k.dowson@uwinnipeg.ca in the WEC-Access Education Office. In-person inquiries are directed to the UW Helen Betty Osborne Centre, 511Ellice Ave., 2nd floor (across from Duckworth).
The Holocaust in Europe
Join Winnipeg university students in May 2013 on a 13-day tour of historical sites related to the Holocaust and the Second World War in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
Tour itinerary
The tour departs 16 May and returns 28 May, 2013.
The tour cost includes:
- all air and ground transportation
- hotels with twin rooms and private baths
- breakfast and dinner daily
- entrances to all scheduled attractions
- guided sightseeing and walking tours
- full-time tour director
Dr. Clayborne Carson will be speaking this Thursday, March 22nd at 7:00 PM at the Richardson College for the Environment Atrium. All are welcome to attend. Hope to see you there! Download Poster (pdf)
32nd CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVAL ART HISTORIANS - UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA AND UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG MARCH 9–10, 2012
ART Lab building, room 136
Duckworth Centre, room 301
http://www.yorku.ca/ccmah/index.html
For full-size poster please click here.
Upcoming
Please join us on Monday, October 31st in the Oral History Lab, 2B22, for the Archival Studies MA Program Information Session with Dr. Greg Bak and Dr. Tom Nesmith. The talk will run from 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
posted 10:51am on October 7, 2011
Website Update
The History Website is currently undergoing a series of updates to improve ease and clarity of use. Please check back frequently for new information on the upcoming academic year. New features include in-browser, text-searchable lists of courses and full course descriptions as well as faculty profiles, awards listings and graduate program information.
posted 12:32pm on June 15, 2011
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